Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating the original RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control ...
Jul 13, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ganzkörpertopflappen Wie schützt man sich vor Verbrennungen durch eine Miniatursonne?
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday It’s A Spectrum, With An RP2350 ULA There was a time in the early 1980s when it was common to see home made keyboards for 8-bit machines that came with membrane or rubber keyboards. Though we’ve seen …read more
Jul 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 13 July 2026 Seven Ate Nine Edition Top Story Apple's upcoming M7 processor, destined for a full rollout with Pro, Max, and Ultra models, is expected to support as much as 1.5TB of RAM for local AI and other ma...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Hackaday Supercon: Call for Proposals We are absolutely stoked to announce that the Hackaday Superconference is taking place this year November 6th through 8th in glorious Pasadena California, and we want to see you there! …read more
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Matrix 1.19 launches with encrypted room history sharing, custom emojis, and six new MSCs Matrix 1.19 delivers several enhancements to this open standard and protocol for real-time communication. The update introduces encrypted room history sharing, allowing clients to specify which dev...
Jul 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-13-26 It has been 12 days since I last published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links due to some combination of being busy and not feeling my best. Both of those blockers exist today, but I have time to squeeze i...
Jul 13, 2026 from Adventures in Open Source Software I Got Scammed After what happened to me this morning, I expect the North Carolina School of Science and Math to ask for my diploma back. I got scammed. This is very embarrassing for me, as I consider myself pret...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday Voltmeter-Based Floating Point Calculator Does It In Style [lcamtuf] is not just a calculator superfan, but also a skilled builder. That much is evident in the fabulous design of Calcumator 2000, an electromechanical calculator that uses voltmeter readout...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net scrcpy 4.1 launches with VP8/VP9 video encoding, FFmpeg 8.1, and several enhancements scrcpy 4.1 broadens its Android screen mirroring capabilities by introducing support for VP8 and VP9 video encoders. This update lets users stream Android displays using efficient and widely suppor...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday The Death of Physical Media and the Real Challenges to Software Archiving Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news that Sony will no longer manufacture physical game discs come …read more
Jul 13, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog When Every Data Write Comes at a New Price - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #144 Recently, OpenAI’s Codex was found to have a logging issue: the program kept writing large volumes of logs to a local database, causing the files to grow continuously and generating far more disk w...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net PeaZip 11.2 adds .ZIM archive support and improves drag-and-drop & keyboard shortcuts PeaZip 11.2 is now available as the latest version of this open source and cross-platform file manager and archiving tool, extending its capabilities with several enhancements and updates. This ver...
Jul 13, 2026 from It's FOSS Slack Who? This Self-Hosted Chat App Just Went Open Source Built by one developer over the past year, Chatto is a team chat solution that can be self-hosted.
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Linkwarden 2.15 brings major mobile updates, a much lighter web app & reduced Docker image Linkwarden 2.15 has been released as the latest version of this open-source collaborative bookmark manager. This release introduces one of its largest mobile updates to date, enhancing user experie...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday DIY Steam Controller Puck Offers Xbox, Switch, PlayStation Emulation Modes Valve recently released a new version of the Steam Controller, which features a wired USB puck that serves both as charger and dedicated, low-latency wireless receiver. The downside is they …read more
Jul 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling “In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-pr...
Jul 13, 2026 from GadgeteerZA AI Barometer: the best AI for every job right now because choosing is difficult “Barely a month goes by without an AI laboratory declaring its latest model the smartest ever built. For anyone simply trying to keep up, or trying to pick a tool that drafts a decent e-mail, fixes...
Jul 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.13 boosts input pointer support, X11 keyboard scancode mapping & FFmpeg on ARM64EC Wine 11.13 is now available, offering an updated compatibility layer for running Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and BSD systems. This release delivers expanded support for input po...
Jul 13, 2026 from Hackaday Newton’s Cradle Isn’t Really Perpetual If any astute Hackaday reader saw [dongvua90]’s Newton’s cradle go on without human intervention all day long, they’d probably suspect the truth: there’s a battery and a magnet involved. But …read ...
